The Symptom Radar feature detects early signs of strain on your body, and alerts you so that you can take proactive steps toward rest and recovery.
Symptom Radar is available for:
- Oura Ring Generation 3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership (not available on Gen2 or older)
- iOS and Android
- Members with at least seven nights of sleep data within the past 14 days
What Is Symptom Radar?
How to Use Symptom Radar
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What Is Symptom Radar?
Symptom Radar looks for changes in your Oura data that may indicate something is putting a strain on your body. The Oura App monitors several biometrics including average body temperature, respiratory rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and inactive time—significant deviations in one or more of these metrics may be a sign for you to focus on rest and recovery in the upcoming days.
Symptom Radar also uses demographic information such as your age, sex assigned at birth, height, and weight to better tailor its recommendations to you. To ensure your information is correct, tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen and select My profile.
The Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.
Symptom Radar may not work optimally with pre-existing medical conditions. Pregnancy also impacts biometric baselines and may reduce the accuracy of Symptom Radar.
How to Use Symptom Radar
Symptom Radar is turned on by default and visible to Oura members with active membership. Among other inputs, the feature uses your sleep data (at least seven nights within the past 14 days) to check for signs of strain on your body. If there is a clear sign of strain, it will be spotlighted on the Today screen the following morning. In that case, you can tap on the Symptom Radar card to see more detail.
You can also access Symptom Radar at any time by selecting the menu in the upper-left of the Today screen and then selecting Symptom Radar.
The Oura App displays signs of strain in a three-level estimate:
- No signs: There are no obvious signs in your biometrics of something straining your body
- Minor signs: There are small signs in your biometrics of something straining your body
- Major signs: There are stronger signs in your biometrics of something straining your body
If there are minor or major signs of strain, the Oura App will recommend focusing on rest and recovery and will display the biometrics that are showing the most change. If needed, you can enable Rest Mode, which pauses your Activity Score, goal, and all activity contributors. Symptom Radar will continue to monitor your metrics even with Rest Mode activated.
Note that your Readiness Score may not immediately decrease when Symptom Radar indicates a strain on your body.
Symptom Radar can be toggled on or off at any time from the detail screen.
